A compleat history of druggs,
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- Publication date
- 1712
- Topics
- Materia medica, Animal, Materia medica, Vegetable, Botany, Medical, Pharmacology, Cacao, Chocolate, Peppers, Sugar, Tobacco, Bezoars, Ambergris, Whale oil, Catalogs, Booksellers' -- Great Britain -- 1712, Imprint 1712
- Publisher
- London: : Printed for R. Bonwicke, William Freeman, Timothy Goodwin, John Walthoe, Matthew Wotton, S. Manship, John Nicholson, Benjamin Tooke, Rich. Parker, and Ralph Smith.
- Collection
- JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana
- Contributor
- John Carter Brown Library
- Language
- English
- Volume
- 1-2
- Item Size
- 1.5G
2 volumes in 1 : 23 cm (4to)
Translation and revision, by Joseph Browne, of: Histoire générale des drogues, first printed Paris, 1694
List of subscribers: volume 1, pages [14-15], 1st count
"A catalogue of the seeds of several scarce and curious plants lately brought from the American islands ...": volume 2, pages [13-20], 1st count
The first volume includes materia medica derived from the seeds, roots, wood, bark, leaves, flowers, fruits, gums, and juices of plants and trees; it includes discussions of cacao, chocolate, the "long American pepper," sugar, and tobacco, among many others. The second volume includes materia medica derived from animals, metals, fossils, minerals, bitumens, stones, and soil; it includes discussions of the bezoar, ambergris, and sperm whale oil, among many others
Pagination: volume 1: [16], 224 page, 68 leaves of plates; volume 2: [20], 225-419, [13] pages, [18] leaves of plates
Signatures: volume 1: a-b⁴ (a1 verso blank) B-2F⁴; volume 2: a-b⁴ (a1 verso blank) c² B-2B⁴ 2C-2F² (2C2 verso blank)
Errors in paging: volume 2, page 387 misnumbered 368
Text printed in two columns
Includes index
Bookseller's advertisements: volume 2, pages [12-13], 2rd count
Title pages printed in red and black ink; titles printed within double rule
Plates in volume 1 are numbered 1-68; plates in volume 2 arenumbered 69-86
"An account of the names of authors quoted in this work": volume 2, pages [3-12], 1st count
Purchase; 19-132
Translation and revision, by Joseph Browne, of: Histoire générale des drogues, first printed Paris, 1694
List of subscribers: volume 1, pages [14-15], 1st count
"A catalogue of the seeds of several scarce and curious plants lately brought from the American islands ...": volume 2, pages [13-20], 1st count
The first volume includes materia medica derived from the seeds, roots, wood, bark, leaves, flowers, fruits, gums, and juices of plants and trees; it includes discussions of cacao, chocolate, the "long American pepper," sugar, and tobacco, among many others. The second volume includes materia medica derived from animals, metals, fossils, minerals, bitumens, stones, and soil; it includes discussions of the bezoar, ambergris, and sperm whale oil, among many others
Pagination: volume 1: [16], 224 page, 68 leaves of plates; volume 2: [20], 225-419, [13] pages, [18] leaves of plates
Signatures: volume 1: a-b⁴ (a1 verso blank) B-2F⁴; volume 2: a-b⁴ (a1 verso blank) c² B-2B⁴ 2C-2F² (2C2 verso blank)
Errors in paging: volume 2, page 387 misnumbered 368
Text printed in two columns
Includes index
Bookseller's advertisements: volume 2, pages [12-13], 2rd count
Title pages printed in red and black ink; titles printed within double rule
Plates in volume 1 are numbered 1-68; plates in volume 2 arenumbered 69-86
"An account of the names of authors quoted in this work": volume 2, pages [3-12], 1st count
Purchase; 19-132
- Accession
- 19-132
- Addeddate
- 2022-04-05 23:52:24
- Associated-names
- Browne, Joseph, active 1700-1721; Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715; Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708; Floyd, O. J; Worcestershire Natural History Society
- Call number
- E712 .P785c
- Camera
- Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control)
- Digital
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-
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- Pages
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- Physical
- 6
- Ppi
- 500
- References
- Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration, 3219; Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, 428; Catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, IV: page 411; Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition), 7258n; English short title catalogue, T113762; European Americana, 712/175
- Republisher_date
- 20220405132930
- Republisher_operator
- donna_dorvick@brown.edu
- Republisher_time
- 1084
- Scandate
- 20220405021927
- Scanner
- scribe1.providence.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- providence
- Size
- 2 volumes in 1 :illustrations ;23 cm (4to)
- Tts_version
- 4.5-initial-80-gce32ee1e
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 14318194
- Full catalog record
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